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namby pamby

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Words with the same meaning

  1. Milquetoast
  2. baby
  3. banal
  4. bathetic
  5. bathos
  6. beery
  7. betwixt and between
  8. big baby
  9. bland
  10. bleeding heart
  11. breakable
  12. brittle
  13. cheap-jack
  14. chicken
  15. cloying
  16. cloyingness
  17. cobwebby
  18. crumbly
  19. crybaby
  20. dainty
  21. delicate
  22. delicately weak
  23. doormat
  24. driveling
  25. dull
  26. dull tool
  27. effeminate
  28. elegant
  29. euphemistic
  30. euphuistic
  31. exquisite
  32. fair
  33. fair to middling
  34. fairish
  35. flat
  36. flimsy
  37. formalistic
  38. fragile
  39. frail
  40. frangible
  41. gimcrack
  42. gimcracky
  43. goo
  44. goody good-good
  45. goody-goody
  46. gooey
  47. gossamery
  48. gushing
  49. gutless wonder
  50. hearts-and-flowers
  51. inane
  52. indifferent
  53. innocuous
  54. insipid
  55. invertebrate
  56. jejune
  57. jellyfish
  58. jerry
  59. jerry-built
  60. lackluster
  61. light
  62. lightweight
  63. maudlin
  64. maudlinness
  65. mawkish
  66. mawkishness
  67. mediocre
  68. medium
  69. meek soul
  70. middling
  71. milk-and-water
  72. milksop
  73. mincing
  74. moderate
  75. modest
  76. mollycoddle
  77. mush
  78. mushiness
  79. mushy
  80. namby-pambyism
  81. namby-pambyness
  82. nebbish
  83. nonentity
  84. nostalgia
  85. nostalgic
  86. nostomania
  87. nostomanic
  88. of a kind
  89. of a sort
  90. of sorts
  91. overnice
  92. overprecise
  93. overrefined
  94. oversentimental
  95. oversentimentalism
  96. oversentimentality
  97. oversentimentalized
  98. pansy
  99. pantywaist
  100. papery
  101. passable
  102. pasteboardy
  103. pedantic
  104. precieuse
  105. precious
  106. precisian
  107. precisianistic
  108. precisionistic
  109. puny
  110. puristic
  111. pushover
  112. respectable
  113. romantic
  114. romanticism
  115. sad sack
  116. sapless
  117. sappy
  118. sentiment
  119. sentimental
  120. sentimentalism
  121. sentimentality
  122. sentimentalized
  123. shattery
  124. simpering
  125. sissified
  126. sissy
  127. sleazy
  128. slight
  129. slop
  130. sloppiness
  131. sloppy
  132. slush
  133. so-so
  134. soap opera
  135. sob story
  136. soft
  137. softling
  138. softy
  139. sop
  140. sticky
  141. sweetness and light
  142. tacky
  143. tear-jerking
  144. tearjerker
  145. teary
  146. tedious
  147. tolerable
  148. unsubstantial
  149. vapid
  150. weak sister
  151. weakling
  152. wishy-washy
  153. wispy
  154. womanish

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  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the word namby pamby

    Mousqueton was a native of Normandy. HIs real name was Boniface, but Porthos thought this sounded too namby-pamby, so he changed it to the more impressive name of Mousqueton.

    The Three Musketeers-Alexandre Dumas

    July 18, 2009